The authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israel.

However, Israel's position towards the peace process is still subject to a tug-of-war between two conceptions of citizenship: liberal citizenship on the one hand, and a combination of the remnants of republican citizenship associated with the colonial settlement with an ever more religiously defined ethno-nationalist citizenship, on the other.

1. Introduction
Part I. Fragmented Citizenship in a Colonial Frontier Society: 2. The virtues of Ashkenazi pioneering
3. Mizrachim and women: between quality and quantity
4. The frontier within: Palestinians as second-class citizens
5. The wages of legitimation: Zionist and non-Zionist Orthodox Jews
Part II. The Frontier Reopens: 6. New day on the frontier
7. The frontier erupts: the Intitfadas
Part III. The Emergence of Civil Society: 8. Agents of political change
9. Economic liberalization and peacemaking
10. The 'Constitutional Revolution'
11. Shrinking social rights
12. Emergent citizenship groups? Immigrants from the FSU and Ethiopia and overseas foreign workers
13. Conclusion.